Week 1: Why Canadian History?
Thursday, September 6, 2018
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Pre-Confederation, Ch. 1 When Was Canada?
1.1 Introduction | 1.2 The Writing of History | 1.3 Making Histories | 1.4 The Current State of Historical Writing in Canada | 1.5 Summary - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Thinking Through Canada’s Early History
Introduction | Peace, “Colonialism and the Words We Choose” | Luby et al., “(Re)naming and (De)colonizing the (I?)ndigenous People(s) of North America”
Week 2: Indigenous America and Global Human Migrations
Thursday, September 13, 2018
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Pre-Confederation, Ch. 2 Aboriginal Canada Before Contact; Ch. 5 Aboriginal Canada in the Era of Contact
2.1 Introduction | 2.2 History without Archives | 2.3 The Aboriginal Americas | 2.4 The Millennia Before Contact | 2.5 Languages, Cultures, Economies | 2.6 Summary | 5.2 The Columbian Exchange - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Assessing the Bering Land Bridge
Introduction | Document 1 | Interpretation 1
Week 3: French Colonial Society
Thursday, September 20, 2018
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Pre-Confederation, Ch. 4 New France
4.1 Introduction | 4.2 Acadia | 4.3 Canada, 1608-1663 | 4.5 The Heroic Age of New France | 4.6 Canada, 1663-1763 | 4.7 Canada and Catholicism - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar, Ceremonies of Possession
Introduction | Document 1 | Document 2 | Interpretation 1
Week 4: Furs and the French Empire
Thursday, September 27, 2018
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Pre-Confederation, Ch. 4 New France
4.4 Wendake/Huronia and the Fur Trade | 4.9 War in the Pays d’en Haut - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Settling a New France
Introduction | Document 1 | Document 2 | Document 3 | Document 4 | Interpretation 1 - Assignment: Complete Academic Integrity module and quiz (Print quiz results and submit in tutorial)
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Week 5: Remaking the Atlantic Colonies
Thursday, October 4, 2018
- Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Colonialism and Christianity
Introduction | Document 1 | Document 2 | Interpretation 1
Week 6: The Fall of New France
Thursday, October 18, 2018
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Pre-Confederation, Ch. 7 Intercolonial Rivalries, Imperial Ambitions, and the Conquest
6.1 Introduction | 6.2 The British Colonies, ca. 1600-1700 | 6.3 Competing Mercantile Economies | 6.9 Colonial Conflict to 1713 | 6.10 Acadia, 1713-1755 | 6.11 The Seven Years’ War | 6.12 Summary - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Treaties in Historical Context
Introduction | Document 1 | Document 2 | Document 3 | Document 4 | Document 5 | Document 6 | Document 7 | Document 8 | Document 9 | Document 10 | Interpretation 1 | Interpretation 2 | Interpretation 3
Week 7: The Revolution of British America
Thursday, October 25, 2018
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Pre-Confederation, Ch. 7 British North America at Peace and at War
7.1 Introduction | 7.2 Pyrrhic Victories | 7.3 Government | 7.4 Revolutionary British America | 7.8 The War of 1812 | 7.9 Summary - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Were the Black Loyalists Loyal?
Introduction | Interpretation 1 | Interpretation 2 - Assignment: Complete “Books, Journals, & More” module Link and “Creating Bibliographies” module Link
Week 8: Fur Trade Frontier
Thursday, November 1, 2018
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Pre-Confederation, Ch. 8 Rupert’s Land and the Northern Plains
8.1 Introduction | 8.2 Northerners | 8.3 Intrusions During the 17th Century | 8.4 Commerce, Collusion, and Conflict in the 18th Century | 8.5 The Montrealers Versus the HBC | 8.6 The Fur Trade Wars | 8.7 Cultural Change on the Plains | 8.8 Fur Trade Society and the Metis | 8.9 Community and Crisis at Red River | 8.10 The HBC and the New Nation to 1860 | 8.11 Environmental Apocalypse | 8.12 Summary - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Perspectives on the Fur Trade
Introduction | Document 1 | Document 2 | Document 3
Week 9: Colonial Life and Empire
***ASSIGNMENT 1 DUE***
Thursday, November 8, 2018
- Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Pathways to British America
Introduction | Document 1 | Document 2 | Document 3 - Assignment: Complete “Research Strategies” module Link
Week 10: Politics, Conflict, and Rebellion
Thursday, November 15, 2018
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Pre-Confederation, Ch. 11 Politics to 1860
11.1 Introduction | 11.2 Politics, 1818-1860 | 11.3 Upper and Lower Canada | 11.4 The Tory Oligarchy | 11.5 Ultramontanism and Secularism | 11.6 Republicanism in Canada | 11.7 The Press | 11.8 Labour and its Discontents | 11.9 Early Reformism and Reformers | 11.10 Rebellions, 1837-38 | 11.11 Durham and Union | 11.12 Responsible Government | 11.13 Seats of Government | 11.14 The 1850s | 11.15 Aboriginal Politics at Mid-Century | 11.16 Summary - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Rebellion or Revolution? Introduction | Document 1 | Document 2 | Interpretation 1 | Discussion Questions
- Assignment: Complete “Writing Strategies” module Link
Week 11: Confederation and the Idea of Canada
Thursday, November 22, 2018
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Pre-Confederation, Ch. 14.1 The 1860s: Confederation and its Discontents
14.1 Introduction | 14.2 Considering Confederation | 14.3 Confederation as a Cure-all | 14.4 Crafting a Constitution | 14.5 Atlantic Canada and Confederation | 14.7 On the Brink of Industrialization | 14.8 Summary - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Debating Confederation
Introduction | Document 1 | Interpretation 1
Week 12: Consolidating the Canadian Empire
Thursday, November 29, 2018
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation, Ch. 2 Confederation in Conflict
2.1 Introduction | 2.2 Nova Scotia’s Second Thoughts | 2.3 British Columbia and the Terms of Union | 2.4 Prince Edward Island | 2.5 Canada Captures the West, 1867-70 | 2.6 Canada and the First Nations of the West | 2.7 Rebellion 1885 | 2.8 Making Sense of 1885 | 2.9 The Railway | 2.10 The North | 2.14 Summary - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, The Trial of Louis Riel
Introduction | Document 1
Week 13: Labour and Capital
Thursday, January 3, 2019
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation, Ch. 3 Urban, Industrial, and Divided: Socio-Economic Change, 1867-1920
3.1 Introduction | 3.2 Industrialization, Labour and Historians | 3.3 The National Policy | 3.4 Rise of a Working Class | 3.5 Urbanization and Industry | 3.6 Craft Unions and Industrial Unions | 3.7 Limits of Democracy | 3.10 Summary - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Working in the Nineteenth Century
Introduction | Document 1 | Interpretation 1
Week 14: Reform Movements
Thursday, January 10, 2019
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation, Ch. 3 Urban, Industrial, and Divided: Socio-Economic Change, 1867-1920; Ch. 7 Reform Movements from the 1870s to the 1980s
3.8 Early Women’s Movement(s) in Canada | 7.1 Introduction | 7.2 Social Reform | 7.5 Women’s Organizations and Reform | 7.6 Social Gospel | 7.7 Temperance and Prohibition | 7.8 Eugenics | 7.12 Summary - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Drugs, Race, and Moral Panic
Introduction | Document 1 | Interpretation 1
Week 15: War Society
Thursday, January 17, 2019
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation, Ch. 6 The War Years, 1914-45
6.1 Introduction | 6.2 Borden vs. Borden | 6.3 The Great War | 6.4 Assessing Canada’s War | 6.5 Suffrage and Prohibition | 6.12 Status Indians and Military Service in the World Wars - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Imagining the Great War Soldier
Introduction | Document 1 | Interpretation 1
Week 16: The Farmer-Labour Revolts
Thursday, January 24, 2019
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation, Ch. 3 Urban, Industrial, and Divided: Socio-Economic Change, 1867-1920; Ch. 7 Reform Movements from the 1870s to the 1980s
3.9 The Great War and the General Strike | 7.9 Reform Politics: 3rd Parties - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Re-Constructing a New Canada
Introduction | Document 1 | Document 2
Week 17: Depression and Dissent
Thursday, January 31, 2019
- Read:Â Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation, Ch. 6 The War Years, 1914-45; Ch. 8 The Economy since 1920
6.6 The Interwar Years | 6.7 The Natural Governing Party: The King Years | 8.4 Economic Cycles | 8.5 The Great Depression - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Relief Camps
Introduction | Document 1
Week 18: Total War
Thursday, February 7, 2019
- Read:Â Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation, Ch. 6 The War Years, 1914-45
6.9 The Road to WWII | 6.10 Canada Goes to War | 6.11 Newfoundland Goes to War | 6.13 Canada Between the UK and the US | 6.14 Global War | 6.15 The Home Front | 6.16 Enlisted Women, Conscription, and the Zombie Army | 6.17 Japanese Canadians in the Second World War | 6.18 From V-E to V-J | 6.19 Summary - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Wartime Propaganda
Introduction | Document 1 | Document 2 | Document 3 | Document 4 | Document 5 | Document 6
Week 19: Post-War Society
Thursday, February 14, 2019
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation, Ch. 8 The Economy since 1920; Ch. 9 Cold War Canada, 1945-1991
8.11 Fashioning a Post-War Economy | 8.15 The Boom Years, the Bust Years | 9.13 Cold War Society: Cities and Suburbs | 9.16 The 1960s Counterculture | 9.17 The Sexual Revolution - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History Seminar, Medicare
Introduction | Document 1 | Document 2 | Document 3 | Interpretation 1
Week 20: Next to an Elephant
Thursday, February 28, 2019
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation, Ch. 8 The Economy since 1920; Ch. 9 Cold War Canada, 1945-1991
8.14 Economic Nationalism | 9.1 Introduction | 9.4 The Cold War | 9.5 Post-War Leadership and State-Making | 9.6 Dief is the Chief | 9.7 The Pearson Interlude | 9.8 Trudeau I - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Canadian Culture
Introduction | Document 1
Week 21: Limited Identities
***ASSIGNMENT 2 DUE***
Thursday, March 7, 2019
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation, Ch. 9 Cold War Canada, 1945-1991; Ch. 5 Immigration and the Immigrant Experience
9.9 Cold War Quebec | 9.10 The October Crisis | 9.11 Quebec and the ROC | 5.11 Post-War Immigration - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Quebec Nationalism in the 1960s
Introduction | Document 1 | Document 2
Week 22: Aboriginal People in the Twentieth Century
Thursday, March 14, 2019
- Read:Â Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation, Ch. 11 First Nations from Indian Act to Idle No More
11.1 Introduction | 11.3 Natives by the Numbers | 11.5 Aboriginal-Newcomer Relations since Confederation | 11.6 Living with Treaties | 11.7 From Agricultural Training to Residential School | 11.8 WWI to 1970 | 11.10 Canada and the Colonized, 1970-2002 | 11.11 Residential Schools | 11.12 Idle No More | 11.13 Summary - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, Residential Schools
Introduction | Document 1 | Document 2
Week 23: Neo-Liberalism and the History of Stephen Harper
Thursday, March 21, 2019
- Read:Â Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation, Ch. 8 The Economy since 1920; Ch. 9 Cold War Canada, 1945-1991; Ch. 12 Canada at the End of History
8.16 The New World Economic Order | 8.17 Post-Industrial Canada | 9.12 The 1980s | 12.3 Postmodern Politics | 12.4 Political Recalibrations - Read: Kheraj and Peace, Open History Seminar: Canadian History, White Paper | Red Paper: Debating Indian Policy, 1969-1970
Introduction | Document 1 | Document 2 | Interpretation 1
Week 24: Twenty-First Century Canada
Thursday, March 28, 2019
- Read: Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation, Ch. 12 Canada at the End of History
12.2 The End of the Cold War